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Motor cognition

The fact that the observation of action can prime a similar response in the observer, and that the degree to which the observed action facilitates a similar response in the observer cast some light into the phenomenon called social facilitation, first described by Robert Zajonc, which accounts for the demonstration that the presence of other people can affect individual performance.

Robert Zajonc

Zajonc was married to American social psychologist Hazel Rose Markus, known for her contributions to cultural psychology.

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In 1939, before the Nazi invasion of Poland reached Łódź, his family fled to Warsaw.

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Robert Boleslaw Zajonc, an only child, was born in Łódź, Poland on November 23, 1923.

Zajonc

Robert Zajonc (1923–2008), Polish-born American social psychologist

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